On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:04 PM, David Barrett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 02/04/2011 09:46 AM, Julian Cain wrote: >> On Feb 4, 2011, at 12:12 PM, David Barrett<[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 02/04/2011 08:58 AM, Julian Cain wrote: >>>> >>>> This is false. Egypt cut ALL Internet traffic including mobile. Having >>>> said this the only solution is an AD-HOC network built with existing >>>> hardware w/ internet gateways somewhere along the path. This technology >>>> has been around for quite some time. The downside is that it takes an >>>> incredible amount of effort to daisy chain home and office routers in a >>>> manner that will "act" like the Internet. This is the only solution to a >>>> complete government/corporate takeover. Build a new Internet with existing >>>> hardware that gateways users into the public Internet. >>> >>> Just to clarify, did Egypt cut *domestic* phone and internet, or just >>> *international*? For example, if I had a server inside Egypt, using an >>> Egyptian domain, could users inside Egypt generally access it? >> >> They cut both domestic and international. No a user cannot access a domain >> that lies within Egypt's boundaries nor any other when this occurs. > > Interesting! Any idea how they did this? For example, did they just > turn off DNS such that nothing resolved even though the core domestic > routes were intact? Or did they actually turn off every broadband > connection in the country? The Egypt government has a kill switch that orders ALL ISP's to stop routing ALL data. The USA has this as well written up in an executive order for a SHTF scenario(economic collapse). It's well known that corporations bow to all governments or are part of said governments. Because the news is 70% lie and 30% truth you will have to find alternative news to get the real story. Here is one example: http://m.zdnet.com/blog/networking/the-internet-goes-dark-in-egypt/613 > > I'm wondering if a bunch of nodes in universities and homes could have > maintained a pre-established DHT using straight IP addresses, or if all > WAN connections were completely terminated. Like, could hospitals still > communicate with each other? Government offices? The military? > > I haven't read any detailed analysis on exactly was going on > domestically, merely what appeared to be happening to the international > connections. Can you provide any links? > > -david > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
